ALBANY -- Christopher Porco walked out of jail a free man just after 2 p.m. on Friday after friends and relatives put together his mandated $250,000 cash bail.

"I feel pretty good, actually," said the 22-year-old, who flashed a broad smile to photographers before slipping into his lawyer's car. "And I just want you to know I'm innocent."

Porco was indicted on second-degree murder and attempted murder charges on Nov. 4, nearly a year after a Nov. 15 attack in his parents' Brockley Drive home in Delmar left his father, Peter Porco, dead and his mother, Joan, critically injured.

He has been in the Albany County Correctional Facility ever since.

Released earlier than planned, Porco was met at the door by his attorney, Terry Kindlon, instead of his mother, who had planned to greet him.